Welcome to my Twitter Bot Workshop! Here’s a link to a Google document for the workshop. Those interested in participating will profit most from the workshop by reading the document and doing the first three steps: Explore the Twitter bot examples listed in the document for ideas and inspiration to come up with a concept… Continue reading Twitter Bot Workshop for RUM Linguists
Category: Presentations
ELO18 Panel: Towards E-Lit’s #1 Hit
This panel was presented at the Electronic Literature Organization 2018 conference in Montreal on August 14, 2018. This post offers both the proposal for the panel and presentations, and video documentation of the presentations themselves. The participants (in order of appearance) are: Dr. Leonardo Flores, Dr. Kathi Inman Berens, and Dr. Lyle Skains. Leonardo Flores,… Continue reading ELO18 Panel: Towards E-Lit’s #1 Hit
Lecture: Third Generation Electronic Literature
I was recently invited to give a lecture at the University of Bergen on January 31, 2018 and the recording is now available. My talk, titled “Third Generation Electronic Literature” offers a historical overview of electronic literature, builds upon genealogies of the field by Hayles and Funkhouser, and describes a third wave of e-literature that… Continue reading Lecture: Third Generation Electronic Literature
Workshop: Making Twitter Bots for Digital and Cultural Literacy
On Saturday, July 29 at 1:15 pm, I will be offering a workshop on creating Twitter bots at the Digital Pedagogy Lab in Vancouver. Here’s a link to a Google document for the workshop that will allow you to read and make comments on the document. Please feel free to use the comment functionality to… Continue reading Workshop: Making Twitter Bots for Digital and Cultural Literacy
E-Literature for App Makers
This is a series of links that I will reference in a brief talk I will have with the AppCreator group at UPRM on Wednesday, October 19, 2016. ¿Qué es la literatura electrónica? Here are 4 examples of historical e-literature in chronological order: Christopher Strachey, “Love Letter Generator” (1952) bpNichol, First Screening (1984) Jim Andrews,… Continue reading E-Literature for App Makers
Teaching Critical Memes
Materials for my “Teaching Critical Memes” presentation: Curricular Unit Limor Shifman, “Memes in a Digital World: Reconciling with a Conceptual Troublemaker“ See also her MIT Press book, Memes in Digital Culture. Wasteland Memes on Twitter Activity: Read Shakespeare’s Sonnet 130 (below) Go to Meme Generator Create a meme that uses language, ideas, images from the… Continue reading Teaching Critical Memes
Presentación: “Los Niños de Ahora y la Literatura Electrónica: Preparación para el Siglo 21”
Mi ponencia “Los Niños de Ahora y la Literatura Electrónica: Preparación para el Siglo 21” está disponible en la Segunda Cumbre Internacional Los Padres de Ahora. Para más detalles, visiten I ♥︎ E-Poetry, donde he preparado un recurso descargable con más de 20 obras de literatura electrónica para niños de todas las edades. A continuación… Continue reading Presentación: “Los Niños de Ahora y la Literatura Electrónica: Preparación para el Siglo 21”
Presentation: Beyond the Book: Discover Electronic Literature
Today I visited UPR: Aguadilla to launch English Week with a 2 hour talk titled “Beyond the Book: Discover Electronic Literature.” Here’s the slideshow: [slideshare id=60772407&doc=beyondthebook-160411190122]
Fall 2015 Presentations
Here are some of my upcoming presentations for the Fall: “Cómics digitales” UPRM, Oct. 2, 2015. “Translating Computational Literature” American Literary Translation Association Conference, Oct. 30, 2015. (see slideshow and video) “Se levanta un (ro)bot puertorriqueño: Hostos Bot” Magna Feria Internacional del Libro Eugenio María de Hostos, November 5, 2015. “Looking for a Home: Publishing… Continue reading Fall 2015 Presentations
Presentation: Time Capsules for True Digital Natives
Here’s the text of my lightning talk at ELO 2015, titled “Time Capsules for True Digital Natives.” You can watch a video recording of my presentation, which starts at 35:00 minutes. How will electronic literature be remembered and studied a century or two from now? Will there even be a concept of electronic literature? Will… Continue reading Presentation: Time Capsules for True Digital Natives